One hundred years ago, it was declared illegal for native South Africans to acquire land outside scheduled native areas, reserves which had been demarcated by the new Union Parliament and covered only a small fraction of the country. This short piece of legislature, the 1913 Natives Land Act,...
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by Rebecca Smalley on 30 Apr 2013
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by Emmanuel Sulle I am thankful to Dr Gaynor Pardaza, Prof Mafaniso Hara, Prof Ruth Hall and Prof Moenieba Issacs for their constructive comments on this document. on 28 Mar 2013
Amid the rapid acquisitions of tracts of land for production of food and energy feedstocks, and private forest plantations in developing countries in 2005-2009, FAO launched the consultation process to develop...
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by Ben Cousins and Michael Aliber on 31 Jan 2013
South African land reform beneficiaries have been at the mercy of unworkable project designs, largely irrelevant to their livelihood possibilities, aspirations and abilities. Where South African land reform recipients have achieved modest improvements, it is largely because they abandoned or...
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by Donna Hornby on 30 Nov 2012
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Land reform is a pall over the society. We don’t go forwards. We can’t go backwards. So mostly, we go nowhere. Whether we’re land owners,... |
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by Ruth Hall and Karin Kleinbooi on 7 Sep 2012
At the Carnegie 3 conference, Strategies to Overcome Poverty and Inequality, held in the first week of September 2012, a focus session on land reform suggested that all aspects of land reform – restitution, redistribution and...
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